Alaska field notes, v4469
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Verleek 1966 Journal 69 yesterday, which means that all my pictures were lost. On the beach I found two dead Thilde killed Murre and collected one of them, since the other one was spoiled. The rough weather is probably responsible for making them collide with the rocks. On my way back I hiked about 1 km up Nasorak Creek and then I hiked up hill on my way home. I saw one Tree Swallow in Nasorak Valley. On the slopes I noticed several Wheatears and a few White-c. Sparrows in the willows along the creeks. Got home at 16:15. The ARK plane just left with the two guys - (Frank Little and Bob Barodate). In the evening I prepared the skin of the Thilde killed Murre (NAMU 153). Aug. Another windy day with plenty of snowshoe. I stayed inside during the morning. In the afternoon Tom and Ron Brower and I hiked up the valley N of camp to the area where I had seen the Bare-tailed Godwit a few days ago. We did not see the birds, but we did see a family group of Willow Ptarmigan and we found a long-tailed Jaeger to drop a large Dicrosternix trismucronatus which it had caught. We went home by way of the Ogotank valley. In the evening Ron Brower suggested a trip along the cost in the direction of Kavellina, because he had seen a Walrus along the beach which had not yet been stripped of its ivory. Apparently the Eskimos killed a lot of Walruses and failed to recover a good percentage of them. These animals